Layout #57 front & back

So this is what I do sometimes if I really love a double-sided paper. The top photo shows the finished layout, the bottom shows the back of said finished layout. I figure I'll make a few cards with the cute strawberry patterned circles.This is another Ailis page, and as you can see, she's a real thumb-sucker! The dentist gave us heck last time, saying...

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Layout #56

I made this layout with the Design Dollies Elements Challenge in mind. It calls for: the color red, at least 3 ovals, a flourish, glitter, and 2 patterned papers. The part I had the most trouble with was the ovals! My old pages have tons of ovals, that was the "thing", but lately, no way! Anyway, this was a really fun page to put together. I really...

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Drum roll, please!

Thank you so much to everyone who participated in my blog-a-versary candy giveaway! It was sooooooo much fun getting to know everyone a bit better, and also to see the number of followers grow. Your music and book suggestions were FANTABULOUS, and I will be putting together a playlist of everyone's favourite songs really soon. (Sande, State of Love...

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Layout #55

Do you remember Simple Scrapbooks magazine? I loved that one, and I was pretty sad when they closed shop a while ago. Anyway, I went to Smithers last week with my kids and my mom (shoe shopping for school, as you can't get anything decent here!) and I just HAD to go to the LSS of course (they were having a clearance sale - AWESOME!) and I found a...

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Little Princess

Hey, here's some cool news! I was chosen as a fave over at Some Odd Girl for my last card! YOW!!! So I thought I might try something similar for this card. I used sketch 78 from Card Patterns (flipped upside down) and the colours from Just Us Girls (lime, hot pink, and teal). I love these colours, and I almost cut into my new papers from Cosmo Cricket's...

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Smokin' Hot!

These papers came in a prize package I won from Design Dollies, and I love 'em 'cause they're just so masculine! When I saw the one patterned paper, I just knew that I wanted to cut it up to make a banner with the shapes, so when I saw Sketch 118 at Creative Scrappers with the banner in one corner, I knew now was the time to do it. I followed the...

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Angel Baby

So I've been playing around with some Tim Holtz products, and I found that with grungeboard, distress ink, and perfect pearls, I can make these beautiful wings. And voila! Inspiration struck! Isn't it cool when that happens? I was also inspired by this Basic Grey paper that I picked up (on sale, love that!) at the LSS on my little summer holiday....

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First Attempt at a Digi Stamp

So don't laugh, but this is the first time I've ever used a digi stamp. Never even heard of 'em until I started blogging, and then I had no cause to use 'em because I didn't have a printer. But my mom and dad gave me a new printer, kind of outta the blue (thanks, folks!) and I decided to make this card as my first project. I used a freebie stamp from...

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Blog-A-Versary!

Hey, guess what? It's the one year anniversary of my first ever blog post! I just realized this a couple of days ago, so I thought I should put together a little blog candy. I've had so much fun blogging my creations, hearing others' comments, winning prizes, and meeting cool people from all over for the past 365 days that I decided it's time to give...

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Fiver!

This here is a birthday card for my friend Jill. She looooooves cowboys! Her birthday's not until November, but hey, at least I'm ahead of the game. I've been holding onto this postcard with the cowboy for at least 13 years, and now I know why! And the card qualifies for 5 challenges! That's gotta be a record for me. The challenges are:1. Design Dollies:...

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Trifecta, Yeah Baby!

Design Dollies Trifecta this week: colours: yellow, kraft and white. Elements: lyrics from a TV theme song. And then the sketch. You know, I almost gave up on it. The elements challenge really had me stumped. I don't watch much TV, and when I do, we only get 4 crummy channels. The only lyrics that came to mind were those from CSI (well, it was either...

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Layout #51

Here's the final page for my husband's bike race 2 years ago. I had a bunch of photos, and I wanted to include them all, so I went to my "Creative Sketches for Scrapbooking" book by Becky Higgins for inspiration. I really like the layout of it! I also used SPCC colours from a couple of weeks ago, but I didn't meet the challenge deadline because of...

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Queen of my Heart

Here's some more recent photos of Brenna. She is exactly 5 months here, and I could just eat her up, she is just soooooo yummy! OK, enough gushing! I definitely had some challenges with this layout. I knew I wanted to use the sketch from Sketchy Thursdays, but it took me a while to find colours, and now that it's done, I'm not entirely sure about...

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Threefer!

Is that even a word, "threefer"? What I meant was three challenges in one, like two-for-one, only with three, get it? OK, I should probably be going to bed, 'cause I'm gettin' a little goofy! I was away on a little holiday last week, so when I came home yesterday with some new goodies, I was just rarin' to go. I love this stamp set from Tim Holtz...

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